IDL's are nice, but old school systems like CORBA are death when you need to
change things.
Avro, protobufs and thrift are all miles better.
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Koert Kuipers wrote:
> i would love an IDL, plus that modern serialization frameworks such as
> protobuf/thrift support v
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Hadoop moving towards the Avro IDL for full
RPC (in either 0.23 or some later version)?
Matt
From: Koert Kuipers [mailto:ko...@tresata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 4:00 PM
To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org
Subject: Re: A question about RPC
i would lo
i would love an IDL, plus that modern serialization frameworks such as
protobuf/thrift support versioning (although i still have issues with
different versions of thrift not working nicely together, argh why is that).
the only downside is perhaps that they are a little slower than writables.
On We
Hadoop has its RPC machanism mainly Writables to overcome some of the
disadvantages on normal serializations.
For more info:
http://www.lexemetech.com/2008/07/rpc-and-serialization-with-hadoop.html
Regards,
Uma
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Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12
